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I have a server running 11.3-p7 that has been upgraded over time since about 2009. When I originally built it, I chose not to use packages and I have been regretting that decision for years due to how much time it takes to handle updates. As I did not initially intend for it to be a server, I...

Hello, I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD desktop as guest in VirtualBox. I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, instead I've put the customized configuration in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. There, I've added two files: mouse0.conf that contains the exact same content as described in the handbook (no...

I am new to the forums, but not to FreeBSD - please be kind. :beer: I am using a Verizon Hotspot via iPhone/iPad as my internet connection. It is connected via USB. Everything works marvelously when my Hotspot is serving full bandwidth, but Verizon throttles the Hotspot bandwidth down to...

Hi, I have recently installed mlterm on my system since it's the best (if not the only) terminal emulator with decent Arabic/RTL support (tried urxvt, but it doesn't play well with Arabic). I use mlterm because my main IRC client is irssi and mlterm works nicely with that in terms of Arabic...

Hello everyone! I have run into a strange little problem today. I have previously been using www/qutebrowser on my computer. I used it just yesterday. When I came home today and booted my system, it was magically gone. Perhaps I am just retarded and uninstalled it, so I tried installing, but...

Hey everyone, I'm new to FreeBSD and to the forums, so I might be here often... My question is why does my app not open when I click run??? The app I am trying to open is CuraEngine, it's a 3-D printing slicer software. Whenever I search it up on the start menu and click "Run CuraEngine," it...

Hi all, I have maintained my FreeBSD systems for quite some time on 'latest' and would expect a Wednesday weekly release for updated packages. Is there a documentation showing the schedule of the quarterly package release cycle? I am interested in the cut off dates for new packages to be...

Hi gang! Introduction (editorial section) Every once in a while we see new(er) users who get utterly confused with the whole ports collection and the package management system and as a result they're often having a hard time trying to understand how this whole thing actually works. Now, I...

Hello Forum! Today I installed a new PC, FreeBSD 11.0R/amd64 from the official memstick.img installer. I booted the new system and did the below. freebsd-update fetch install reboot pkg bootstrap pkg install xorg Everything went well. But Xorg -configure crashes and core-dumps. I tried...

Exactly what the title says. How do binary packages for FreeBSD get built and posted to pkg.freebsd.org? My question specifically concerns graphics/php56-gd, which has compile-time switches to enable or disable XPM and t1lib support. Enabling these two options pulls in a whole bunch of X11...

Hi all, I'd like to follow the quarterly package repository (because I value stability and reliability over new features), but I need to have a few packages compiled with custom options, and this results in a problem: Ports does not have a quarterly release, only a "rolling release" of sorts...

Hello. In ports are only fedora and centos. Is it possible to install the package for debian or ubuntu?

I kind of have an idea for how to make a popup for when a vulnerability is presented. For the root crontab I have @reboot pkg audit -F @hourly pkg audit -F I can use pkg audit as a non-root user to find the alert, but this doesn't alert me automatically when it becomes present. Next, I found...

I'm looking to set up ports-mgmt/poudriere on a low-powered server, specifically the HP 470. I was wondering if this is too low powered of a the machine to run ports-mgmt/poudriere if I am not using ZFS. I don't care if it takes a long time to compile packages (within reason) as long as it...

On one machine I have switched from ports to packages because of slow hardware specs (very long port build times) and have observed that pkg installs/upgrade packages to new versions that are vulnerable resulting in couple of vulnerable packages. For example I now see pkg audit -F vulnxml file...